In article <3d692039@news.povray.org>,
 "James Taylor" <jim### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote:

> A few days ago I posted a thread about making a spiral, and decided to make
> a to write a smooth_triangle mesh. The problem is it ain't smooth. As I
> understand it, the normal vectors are just directional and their magnitude
> doesn't matter (is this assumption correct?) so <0,1,0> has the same value
> in terms of normals as <0,10,0>?

I'm not sure, it is possible the magnitude affects the weighting of the 
normals when they are interpolated across the triangle. Try normalizing 
the normal vectors you specify.

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